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		<title>By: Clarisse Thorn</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarisse Thorn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow.  Awesome.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow.  Awesome.</p>
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		<title>By: Paul Reinerfelt</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Reinerfelt]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting! As always, you are a font of knowledge! 

Regarding Aediles: 
I understand that you focus on the relation to whores, and I certainly see the connection to modern day &quot;official pimps&quot; as you call them. Still, they were, as I understand it, responsible for much more. The had general jurisdiction over public buildings and streets (in which capacity, a part was to regulate harlotry, like any other peddling on the streets) as well as maintaining standards of weights and measures and organisation of public games and festivals. It degenerated under Augustus rule and in the end, they were pretty much just registrars of prostitutes.

Fun fact: At Lund University in Sweden (and, I believe, Uppsala), the caretaker of some buildings, owned by the student body collectively, is called an &quot;Edil&quot;, the Swedish form of the title. I would not be at all surprised if, in the days of yore, one of the services this caretaker would perform for the (almost exclusively male in those days) students was to arrange for some female companionship…]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interesting! As always, you are a font of knowledge! </p>
<p>Regarding Aediles:<br />
I understand that you focus on the relation to whores, and I certainly see the connection to modern day &#8220;official pimps&#8221; as you call them. Still, they were, as I understand it, responsible for much more. The had general jurisdiction over public buildings and streets (in which capacity, a part was to regulate harlotry, like any other peddling on the streets) as well as maintaining standards of weights and measures and organisation of public games and festivals. It degenerated under Augustus rule and in the end, they were pretty much just registrars of prostitutes.</p>
<p>Fun fact: At Lund University in Sweden (and, I believe, Uppsala), the caretaker of some buildings, owned by the student body collectively, is called an &#8220;Edil&#8221;, the Swedish form of the title. I would not be at all surprised if, in the days of yore, one of the services this caretaker would perform for the (almost exclusively male in those days) students was to arrange for some female companionship…</p>
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		<title>By: Francesca</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francesca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks!</p>
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		<title>By: Maggie McNeill</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maggie McNeill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Francesca!  I dug around a lot on the internet to get as full a list as I could, but my primary source (perhaps 70% of this info) was from Nickie Roberts&#039; &lt;em&gt;Whores in History&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/whores-in-history-revisited/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;which I wrote about here&lt;/a&gt;.  It&#039;s an excellent source. :-)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Francesca!  I dug around a lot on the internet to get as full a list as I could, but my primary source (perhaps 70% of this info) was from Nickie Roberts&#8217; <em>Whores in History</em>, <a href="http://maggiemcneill.wordpress.com/2011/06/19/whores-in-history-revisited/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">which I wrote about here</a>.  It&#8217;s an excellent source. <img src='http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Francesca</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Francesca]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is all great information, I&#039;m actually writing a paper on Meretrices, and I was just wondering if you could tell me what sources you used?
Thanks]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is all great information, I&#8217;m actually writing a paper on Meretrices, and I was just wondering if you could tell me what sources you used?<br />
Thanks</p>
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		<title>By: n/a</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[n/a]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 21:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This entry made me incredibly cheerful; I encountered the word/concept &quot;Bustuariae&quot; somewhere in Beckett, and the idea makes me smile. 

A life without sex in a cemetery is missing some spice.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This entry made me incredibly cheerful; I encountered the word/concept &#8220;Bustuariae&#8221; somewhere in Beckett, and the idea makes me smile. </p>
<p>A life without sex in a cemetery is missing some spice.</p>
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		<title>By: Sailor Barsoom</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sailor Barsoom]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hawaiian contains such words as &lt;i&gt;humahumanukunukuapua&#039;a&lt;/i&gt;, as in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWlvYpJ5pRo&amp;fmt=18&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this song.&lt;/a&gt;  But it is a compound word, meaning &lt;a href=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Reef_Triggerfish_1.JPG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;trigger fish with&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Reef_Triggerfish.JPG&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;a snout like a pig.&quot;&lt;/a&gt;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hawaiian contains such words as <i>humahumanukunukuapua&#8217;a</i>, as in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWlvYpJ5pRo&amp;fmt=18" rel="nofollow">this song.</a>  But it is a compound word, meaning <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Reef_Triggerfish_1.JPG" rel="nofollow">&#8220;trigger fish with</a> <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Reef_Triggerfish.JPG" rel="nofollow">a snout like a pig.&#8221;</a></p>
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		<title>By: Maggie McNeill</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Maggie McNeill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s true, but more women are willing to pay for sex with other women than with men.  In my years of owning a service I was hired twice by lone female clients, but neither my service nor any other I ever heard of ever received a call from a serious lone woman looking for a man.  Two other factors come into play: 1) we don&#039;t know that most of the &lt;em&gt;amicae&lt;/em&gt;&#039;s clients weren&#039;t couples, which they may well have been; I had &lt;em&gt;plenty&lt;/em&gt; of those in my career; and 2) Rome at its height had a million people, including plenty of bored, wealthy women.

As for the Eskimo language:  interesting!  German is like that as well.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s true, but more women are willing to pay for sex with other women than with men.  In my years of owning a service I was hired twice by lone female clients, but neither my service nor any other I ever heard of ever received a call from a serious lone woman looking for a man.  Two other factors come into play: 1) we don&#8217;t know that most of the <em>amicae</em>&#8216;s clients weren&#8217;t couples, which they may well have been; I had <em>plenty</em> of those in my career; and 2) Rome at its height had a million people, including plenty of bored, wealthy women.</p>
<p>As for the Eskimo language:  interesting!  German is like that as well.</p>
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		<title>By: Ornithorhynchus</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ornithorhynchus]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a bit surprised by the Amica, since you so often emphasize how few females would be willing to pay for sex.

I bet a lot of guys would love to see Bona Dea&#039;s festivals revived.

(I&#039;m told the belief about the number of Eskimo words for snow is a myth.  Apparently, in Eskimo languages, adjectival phrases are long, compound words, often made up on the spot.  So there are hundreds or thousands of potential &#039;words&#039; for snow, but reportedly there are only a handfull of words for snow that would be considered words by actual Eskimo speakers.)]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was a bit surprised by the Amica, since you so often emphasize how few females would be willing to pay for sex.</p>
<p>I bet a lot of guys would love to see Bona Dea&#8217;s festivals revived.</p>
<p>(I&#8217;m told the belief about the number of Eskimo words for snow is a myth.  Apparently, in Eskimo languages, adjectival phrases are long, compound words, often made up on the spot.  So there are hundreds or thousands of potential &#8216;words&#8217; for snow, but reportedly there are only a handfull of words for snow that would be considered words by actual Eskimo speakers.)</p>
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		<title>By: Pourquoi la prostituée est blonde &#124;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pourquoi la prostituée est blonde &#124;]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 20:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] progressivement, la prostitution ne s&#8217;étende, se complexifie, voire même se généralise. Maggie McNeill, call-girl à la retraite, m&#8217;a aidé à explorer ce territoire inconnu (par blog [...]]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] progressivement, la prostitution ne s&#8217;étende, se complexifie, voire même se généralise. Maggie McNeill, call-girl à la retraite, m&#8217;a aidé à explorer ce territoire inconnu (par blog [...]</p>
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